Rambus (RMBS)

[calbiker]

Re. Intel supports DDR3-800 in 2006?

That sure isn't going to make too many people happy. DDR2 is good for only 2 speed grades? That's lousy!

Speaking of lousy, what about the FSB? It's a bottleneck. A 800 MHz FSB has a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s while 1066 FSB has 8.5 GB/s. Dual channel DDR3-800 has a peak bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s. The memory has a bandwidth that's 50% larger than the FSB. That's lousy!

Intel should consider a Redwood FSB.

Seems to confirm my speculation Intel will skip DDR2-800

Not necessarily. Your speculation was that core speed couldn't achieve DDR2-800. What if there's another problem with DDR2-800?